Siegel, Joseph

Joseph Isaac Siegel attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard University. He joined the International Brigades in Spain in July 1937, where he was initially assigned to the British Battalion in the medical corps as an ambulance driver, first aid worker, and stretcher bearer. Siegel then joined the Lincoln Washington Battalion and fought with the machine gun company on the Aragon front in the fall of 1937, among other battles. Siegel was repatriated to the U.S. in late 1938. He died in 1972.

From the guide to the Joseph Siegel Papers, 1937-1938, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)